Washtub attachment.



w. J. MINN-s. WASHTUB ATTACHMENT.

AIPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 25, 1907.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911. 1

V W/TNESSES I l NlfT-NTOH is. a8 ,9 i/ Q/%/4ww 75 A ORNEYS STATES r'rnn'r H WALTER J. MINNS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SPACESAVING APPLIANCE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

WASI-ITUB ATTACHMENT.

Application filed September 25, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER J. MINNS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in WVashtub Attachments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates more particularly to an attachment for dividing a washtub or other receptacle into independent compartments.

The main object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient device complete in itself which may be applied to washtubs or like receptacles whether made of wood, stone, porcelain or of any other material without changing the receptacle in any way whatever except such means as is necessary to attach the device thereto; which may be readily detached from the receptacle as a whole or certain parts thereof, which makes the receptacle thoroughly sanitary so that the parts may be readily cleaned thereby avoiding the collection of waste, and which is so constructed that the gate serving to divide the receptacle into compartments may be made to form a perfect sealing and water-tight joint.

A further object of the invention is to provide simple, effective and inexpensive means which may be readily attached to the interior of a receptacle and which has a bodily movable division gate and means operatively connected therewith whereby the gate may be made to form separate and independentwater-tight compartments within the receptacle in such a way that said gate and its fastening means may be entirely removed to adapt the receptacle for either a bath or as a washtub wlth a single or independent compartments as occasion may require.

The invention will be hereinafter more particularly described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and will then be pointed out in the claims at the end of the description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan of a washtub or receptacle with the device or attachment embodying one form of my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the receptacle taken on the line IIII of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on a larger scale taken Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1911.

Seria1 No. 394,487.

on the line IIIIII of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a detail perspective of the skeleton frame of the device; and Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of the transverse bar of the fastening means. The receptacle may be of any desired form and may be made of any suitable material. Adapted to be attached to the inner surface thereof is a device or attachment 11. This device has a substantially U-shaped skeleton frame 12 having two upright members 13 and 14 and the horizontal member or base 15 in the form of a single bar and which conforms to the shape of the interior walls of the receptacle 10. The frame 12 is provided with apertures 16 through which the bolts or screws 17 are adapted to pass and by means of nuts rigidly held within the receptacle intermediate the ends thereof, and between the abutting faces of the receptacle and the frame may be provided cement or other means to form a tight joint. The frame 12 has its face 18 adapted to be engaged by a packing or gasket 19 which is held on the face of a gate 20 so as to form independent compartments within the receptacle. This packing or gasket 19 may be of rubber and tubular, and is held in re cesses between the flanges 22 and 23 of the gate and extends along the vertical sides and bottom edge of said gate so that the packing will engage the face of the frame throughout substantially its entire length. The gate is cut away at 23* to provide an overflow between the compartments and to form a stop for the movable member 2 1 of the water-supply attachment 25 so that said movable member 24 may be inclined in either direction to permit hot or cold water or both to be supplied to either or both compartments, there being the usual or any preferred discharge or drainage means for the compartments. The division gate 20 is somewhat extended upward as at 26 in order to prevent water from being splashed from one compartment to the other, though if desired, the said gate may have the part 26 dispensed with and may be of any desired height. v

To move the division gate bodily and to lock the same positively against the frame 12 so as to provide a water-tight joint, I secure to one face of the gate at any convenient point, a bolt 27. This bolt 27 has a threaded end 28 and has its body passed through an aperture 29 in a transversely extending bar 30. This bar 30 may be solid 1 the gate bodily against the face of the frame as shown or tubular or of any other form and has its end normally fitting slots 31 in the frame 12. On the bolt 27, and engaging the threaded end thereof, is a nut 82, and this nut has a handle by which the nut is rotated. When the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3 and the nut rotated to draw the door or gate toward the same the inner face of the nut will engage the transverse bar and will move the gate horizontally and bodily inward toward the frame 12 so that a perfect seal and water-tight joint will be formed between the gate and said frame. By this means the gate and the transverse bar may be readily removed by unscrewing the nut thereby adapting the receptacle to be used as a bath or as a washtub.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a simple and efficient device or attachment is provided which is complete in itself and as an independent device may be sold and readily applied to or detached from various forms of receptacles without any alteration so as to adapt the same for use as a bathtub or as a washtub with separate and independent compartments, that simple means is provided for positively locking and forming a water-tight joint between the gate and the frame of the device, that said means permits the division gate to be readily removed, and the attachment makes the receptacle thoroughly sanitary as the parts may be readily cleaned and the collection of all waste within the receptacle avoided.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination with a receptacle, of a to form a water-tight joint therewith.

2. A device adapted to be attached to a receptacle within the same to form independent compartments therein, comprising a substantially U-shaped skeleton frame, a gate entirely independent of the frame and movable horizontally toward the same, a packing to form a tight joint between the gate and said frame, a bar supported by the frame, and means supported by the gate and cooperating with the bar for positively forcing the gate toward the frame.

3. A device adapted to be attached to a receptacle within the same toform compartments therein, comprising a U-shaped skeleton frame having slots therein, a gate independent of the frame adapted to move bodily toward the same, a packing held to the inner face of the gate along its edges, a a bolt carried by the gate and projecting from one side thereof, a transverse bar through which the bolt passes and which has its ends removably held in the slots in the frame, and a nut on the bolt adapted to engage the bar and force the gate with its packing into locking engagement with one of the faces of the frame.

1 4. A device adapted to be attached to a receptacle within the same to form compart ments therein, comprising a frame, a gate, a bolt carried by the gate and projecting from one side thereof, a bar through which the bolt passes and which has its ends removably held to the frame, and a nut on the bolt adapted to engage the bar and force the gate into locking engagement with the frame.

This specification signed and witnessed this 21st day of September A. D. 1907.

VALTER J. MINNS.

lVitnesses M. TURNER, E. D. .ELLIs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

